VCU Biology
Seminars,
Spring 2008
All seminars will be in Life Sciences Building, Room 253,
on Mondays at 4PM unless noted**
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Jan 14
|
Dan Cristol,
Dept. of Biology, College of William and Mary
"Quicksilver in Virginia: Birds and mercury in the
Shenandoah Valley"
HOST: Elena Grillo |
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Jan 21 |
MLKing Day – NO
SEMINAR |
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**Thurs Jan
24 |
Esteban
Fernandez-Juricic, California State University-Long Beach,
"Avian visual perception and the use of information in foraging and
anti-predator contexts"
HOST: Karen Kester Room 253, 12:30PM!! |
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**Thurs Jan
31 |
Rachel Vallender, Cornell University, "Examining avian
hybridization using genetic markers: Mate choice, rapid introgression and implications
for conservation"
HOST: Karen Kester Room 253, 12:30PM!! |
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Feb 4
|
Hement Varma,
Post-doctoral fellow, Dept. Biological Sciences, Columbia
University, NYC
HOST: Rob Tombes Chem/Biology Faculty candidate |
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Feb 11
|
Vashisht G. Yennu-Nanda, Dept of
Molecular and Cellular Oncology,
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston
TX
"A Chemical Genetics Approach to
Understanding Epigenetic Regulation."
HOST: Rob Tombes |
**TUES
Feb 12 |
Annual “Darwin Day” Seminar,
11AM, Commonwealth Ballroom
Dr. Butch Brodie III, Director,
Mountain Lake Experimental Station, Univ. Virginia
“Predator/prey arms races
and co-evolution”
HOST: Graduate Organization of Biology
Students (GOBS) |
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Feb 18
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Rick McCann, University of Kentucky, Dept. of Biochemistry,
“Cell Adhesion
and Cell
Motility in Health and Disease"
HOST: Rob Tombes |
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Feb 25 |
OPEN |
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Mar 3
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OPEN |
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Mar 10
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SPRING BREAK –
NO SEMINAR |
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Mar 17
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John Chick.
Director of the MS River Lab, Illinois Natural History
Survey
“Food Webs of the Mississippi River”
HOST: Paul Bukaveckas |
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Mar 24
|
Julie Naumann, Integrative Life Sciences Doctoral
Program
Dept. Biology, VCU "Linking physiological responses, chlorophyll fluorescence
and hyperspectral imagery to detect
environmental stress in coastal plants” Doctoral
Dissertation
HOST: Don Young |
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Mar 31 |
Jennifer Tank, University of Notre Dame,
“Nutrient Retention in Streams”
HOST: Paul Bukaveckas |
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Apr 7
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Tiffany Knight,
Dept of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis "Rodent
predation and
hybridization increase extinction risk of the endangered
plant, Lupinus tidestromii
HOST: James Vonesh |
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Apr 14
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John Davy,
director, division of planning and recreation resources at
Virginia dept of
conservation and recreation “Current state of the Chesapeake
Bay watershed”
HOST: Ryan Woodcock |
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Apr 21
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John Orock, Dept
Biology, Washington University, St Louis
“Consumers and Dynamics of Plant Communities” HOST: James
Vonesh |
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Apr 28
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John T. Lill, George Washington
University, Department of Biological
Sciences
"Evolutionary Ecology of Slug
Caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae)"
HOST: Rodney Dyer |
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May 5
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Dr. Jennifer
Krumins, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology
“Soil Microbial Community Responses to Environmental
Perturbation”
HOST: Rima Franklin |
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